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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
This brochure is an analytical review of publications on the history of the old Russian family (17th-19th centuries) of industrialists who had their plants in the Urals, Tula, and in Siberia. In the time of Peter the Great`s reign the Demidovs` plants manufactured about 1/3 of Russian metal.
[ The Prokhorovs: Materials to the history of Prokhorov Trekhgornaia fabric and to the merchant-industrial activity of the Prokhorov family: 1799-1915 : ] Moscow: TERRA, Ekonomicheskaia Gazeta, 1996 Language: Russian
Price: $ 24.00
This history of Prokhorovs manufacture was compiled by Petr Terent`ev, the director of the professional school of this business. It was prepared for presentation at the world exposition in Paris of 1900.
This book is about teachers in Far North schools who later became scholars, studying the traditions, culture and life styles of the small indigenous nations. Bibliography of their works.
[ The Merchantry of Altai at the second half of the 19th-early 20th : ] Barnaul: Izd-vo Altaiskogo Gos. Un-ta, 2001 Language: Russian
Price: $ 25.50
This is the first monograph on the history of the class of businessmen, mostly merchants in the Siberian region of Altai. The authors study the history of the formation of this class, its population and structure, family structure and style of life, areas of business and social activities of Russian entrepreneurs, and the largest enterprises in the colonized areas of Siberia.
[ Diary of my grandmother Sof`ia Vasil`evna Dryzhakova, 1900-1943 : ] St. Petersburg: Pushkinskii Dom, 2012 Language: Russian
Price: $ 45.00
This is diaries of Sof`ia Vasil`evna Dryzhakova (1872-1943), the wife of a city doctor, for 1900-1943. This is a sincere and talented report about her family life, education and the characters of her four children, their spiritual life and fate, the hard life during two Russian revolutions, Civil war and the Great patriotic war.
This is a biographical dictionary of foreigners who played an important role in Russian culture. Many of them settled down in Russia for centuries and became Russians: Koni, Kshesinskii, Kiukhelbeker, Legat, Petipa, Struve, etc.
This dictionary includes 6,550 biographical sketches about prominent Russian people from the past and of the 20th century in more then 40 different fields. Name index. Dzhin Vronskaia (maiden name Slutskaia) and Vladimir Chuguev, both born in Russia, were correspondents for the BBC, contributors to English newspapers, including the column Russian Biographies.
[ On Dandism and George Brummel: Essays : ] Moscow: Nezavisimaia Gazeta, 2000 Language: Russian
Price: $ 21.00
This book is about the best known and most refined representative of dandyism in England George Brummel, "prime-minister of taste and elegance". It is a reprint of the book published in Russian in 1912.
This is the first attempt to present the contribution of one social strata, the nobility, to Russian culture: literature, music, science and inventions. The dictionary includes short biographical sketches of Russian nobles along with their best known works and achievements.
[ Adventures of a young Old Believer : ] St. Petersburg: RKhGA, 2013 Language: Russian
Price: $ 24.00
The author of this book, a grandson of a merchant-Old Believer, underwent many trials related to his faith and social status: raskulachivanie, his father`s arrest, exile to the Siberian town of Narym, expulsion from college.
[ The Jews in Russian history: Personalities : ] Moscow: E.R.A., 2012 Language: Russian
Price: $ 25.00
This collection provides biographical information on 180 Jews, who made a significant contribution to the development of Russian science, art and sports. (0.425 kg.)
This is a collection of papers presented at the eighth readings in honor of Veniamin Iofe (2010). The subject of these papers is biographical studies: their objects both individual and collective, methods, sources, the place of biographies and autobiographies in the history of literature, etc.
This is a collection of papers presented at the seventh readings in honor of Veniamin Iofe (2009). The subject of these papers is biographical studies: their objects both individual and collective, methods, sources, a place of biographies and autobiographies in the history of literature, etc.
This book is a collection of 48 best works extracted from previous ten volumes of the series. They are divided into the following chapters: autobiographies, hagiography, biographies of biographers, biographies from A to Z, sources, collective biographies, logic of biography, meta-theory, narratives, political biography, dictionaries, death in biography (0.
This series publishes for the first time biographical materials about Russian writers and members of the Inteligentsiia of the 19th century. This volume features literary portraits of V. Aliab`ev, I. Gur`enov, Dm.
[ In the Foreign Legion and in captivity of the Japanese : ] Moscow: Dobrovolets" - Reitar, 2005 Language: Russian
Price: $ 21.00
Fedor Eliseev (1892-1987) found himself on the island of Sumatra at the beginning of WWII. He and other Russian officers of the White Army joined the Foreign Legion in protest of the collusion between Hitler`s Germany and Red Russia.
Dmitrii Furmanov (1891-1926) served as a commissar in the 25th brigade led by the legendary commander and controversial hero of the Civil war Vasilii Chapaev (1887-1919). This book is about the complicated relations between Furmanov and Chapaev, about the history of writing and publishing the novel "Chapaev".
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